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UK condemns UN Human Rights Council's dedicated Israel agenda

British diplomats said "little has changed" since they accused the UN Human Rights Council of anti-Israel bias last year

March 25, 2018 12:07
The UK has voted against two resolutions on Israel raised at the United Nations Human Rights Council (Photo: PA Images)
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The UK government has attacked the UN Human Rights Council’s agenda on Israel’s actions in the West Bank, saying “little has changed” since its condemnation of bias against the Jewish state last year.

The UK delegation voted against two of five resolutions on Israel raised at the 37th session of the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Friday.

The first was a motion calling for the withdrawal from the Golan Heights and the second called for an embargo on arms sales to Israel.

But UK diplomats supported a resolution urging a return to pre-1967 borders of the state of Israel, and one on human rights.